Customer Service Coordinator Internship

Job Title

Customer Services Co-Ordinator Internship (1-Year Fixed-Term Contract)

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve peoples health. Were always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

• At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Johannesburg location in the Abbott Core Diagnostics Division. Were empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbotts diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

What Youll Do

The role of the Customer Service Coordinator intern will be instrumental in supporting and assisting the Supply Chain department in the following duties:

Data Capturing

• Ensure that all orders are captured onto data sheet (orders tracker)

Order Handling & Distribution

• Receives orders via Internet, fax or mail, and distribute amongst the team to ensure captured within the order cut off SLA.
• First response handling (to ensure instruction has been actioned)
• To ensure all stages of the order process are captured accurately with reference to system data and times processed by order entry team on the data sheet adding necessary information. (If required).
• Enters the order, taking into consideration any special-order types or FOC codes. Specific customer requests. (If required).
• Follows up on Back Order Report daily with communication to customers using a template.
• Ensure contact details present for automatic order conformation.

Queries handling (Complaints)

• Receives customer complaints specific to order responsibility.
• Clear Back Order report received from customers.

Administrative Tasks

• Ensuring each order has relevant correspondence attached.

Call handling.

• Records all incoming calls from customers on the customer care line, ensuring follow-up with customer within 24 hours.
• Distributing workload within the team

AD-HOC Department Requests

• Completion of tasks assigned of a general nature to assist the division achieving department goals including entering an order using ADOC system, taking into consideration any special-order types or FOC codes. Specific customer requests. (If required).

CUSTOMER FOCUS

• Making customer needs the primary focus of ones actions.
• Actively seeks information to understand customers circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs.
• Shares information with customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities.
• Builds rapport and co-operative relationships with customers.
• Considers how actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; avoids over commitments.

Required Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification, preferably in Supply Chain, Logistics or related.
• NO experience is preferred- i.e the organization is seeking to hire newly graduated candidates.
• Must live in Johannesburg .
• Excellent Communication skills.
• Basic skills in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Telephonic skills required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Able to speak, read and write English.
• Working within a team.
• Taking ownership
• Adherence to work and being available to ensure that client expectation is met.

Apply Now

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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